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a long line of fairies, your family tree is the oldest and most illustrious in
Oz."
"
Princess Dorothy!"
At the sound of her name, the little girl stood up.
I know you are from Kansas and were created a Princess of Oz by our
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gracious Ruler, but can you tell me anything of your ancestors in America?"
demanded the Professor, staring over the top of his thick glasses.
"You'll have to ask Uncle Henry and Aunt Em," said Dorothy rather sulkily.
The Professor had hurt the feelings of her best friend, the Scarecrow, and
ancestors did not interest her one little bit.
"Very well," said the Professor, writing industriously in his book. "I'll just
enter you as 'Dorothy, Princess of Oz and sixth cousin to a President!'"
"I'm not!" Dorothy shook her head positively.
"Oh, everyone in America can claim that!" said the Professor easily.
"Nick Chopper!"
Now up rose our old friend the Tin Woodman, who had also been discovered
by Dorothy on her first trip to the Fairyland of Oz.
"You were a man of meat at one time and a woodman by trade?" queried
Professor Wogglebug, poising his pen in the air.
"I am a Tin Woodman, and you may enter me in your book under the name
of Smith, for a tin Smith made me, and as Royal Emperor of the Winkies, I
do not care to go back to my meat connections," said the Tin Woodman in a
dignified voice.
The company applauded, and the Cowardly Lion thumped the floor with his
tail.
"
Smith is a very good name. I can work up a whole chapter on that," smiled
the Professor. The Tin Woodman had once been a regular person, but a
wicked witch enchanted his ax, and first it chopped off one leg, then the
other, and next both arms and his head. After each accident, Nick went to a
tinsmith for repairs, and finally was entirely made of tin. Nowhere but in Oz
could such a thing happen. But no one can be killed in this marvelous
country, and Nick, with his tin body, went gaily on living and was
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